Insights into the Reach to Grasp Movement

Insights into the Reach to Grasp Movement

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  • Author: K.M.B. Bennett
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISBN: 9780080867595
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

This volume presents a variety of studies relating to the reach to grasp movement and provides a necessary and valuable contribution to the field of motor control. The professions covered in this book range from those interested in the basic sciences to those more interested in practical application. Neurophysiologists and biomechanists join with therapists and neural modelers to present an extensive overview of current developments. Evolutionary and developmental aspects are included together with descriptions of how this movement is affected by central nervous system damage. Purely theoretical aspects of the motor control of this movement are interspersed with treatment applications and robotics.


GRASP

GRASP

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  • Author: Chris Griffiths
  • Publisher: FilamentPublishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 1905493762
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

"Chris Griffiths, CEO of ThinkBuzan Ltd, the creators of iMindMap 5, launches a thorough and compelling guide for generating innovative ideas and solving problems creatively and show you how to unleash bold, fresh ideas and solutions in a systematic way to help you triumph over any challenge." --Publisher description.


Grasp Interaction with Tablets

Grasp Interaction with Tablets

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  • Author: Katrin Wolf
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319139819
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

This book presents guidelines for a future device type: a tablet that allows ergonomic front- and back-of-device interaction. These guidelines help designers and developers of user interfaces to build ergonomic applications for tablet devices, in particular for devices that enable back-of-device interaction. In addition, manufacturers of tablet devices obtain arguments that back-of-device interaction is a promising extension of the interaction design space and results in increased input capabilities, enriched design possibilities, and proven usability. The guidelines are derived from empirical studies and developed to fit the users’ skills to the way the novel device type is held. Three particular research areas that are relevant to develop design guidelines for tablet interaction are investigated: ergonomic gestures, interaction areas, and pointing techniques.


Reach-to-Grasp Behavior

Reach-to-Grasp Behavior

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  • Author: Daniela Corbetta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429885938
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 425

Reaching for objects in our surroundings is an everyday activity that most humans perform seamlessly a hundred times a day. It is nonetheless a complex behavior that requires the perception of objects’ features, action selection, movement planning, multi-joint coordination, force regulation, and the integration of all of these properties during the actions themselves to meet the successful demands of extremely varied task goals. Even though reach-to-grasp behavior has been studied for decades, it has, in recent years, become a particularly growing area of multidisciplinary research because of its crucial role in activities of daily living and broad range of applications to other fields, including physical rehabilitation, prosthetics, and robotics. This volume brings together novel and exciting research that sheds light into the complex sensory-motor processes involved in the selection and production of reach-to-grasp behaviors. It also offers a unique life-span and multidisciplinary perspective on the development and multiple processes involved in the formation of reach-to-grasp. It covers recent and exciting discoveries from the fields of developmental psychology and learning sciences, neurophysiology and brain sciences, movement sciences, and the dynamic field of developmental robotics, which has become a very active applied field relying on biologically inspired models. This volume is a rich and valuable resource for students and professionals in all of these research fields, as well as cognitive sciences, rehabilitation, and other applied sciences.


Spatial Grasp as a Model for Space-based Control and Management Systems

Spatial Grasp as a Model for Space-based Control and Management Systems

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  • Author: Peter Simon Sapaty
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 1000600645
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 137

Governmental agencies and private companies of different countries are actively moving into space around Earth with the aim to provide smart communication and industry, security, and defense solutions. This often involves massive launches of small, cheap satellites in low earth orbits, which is also contributing to the growth of space debris. The book offers a high-level holistic system philosophy, model, and technology that can effectively organize distributed space-based systems, starting with their planning, creation, and growth. The Spatial Grasp Technology described in the book, based on parallel navigation and pattern-matching of distributed environments with high-level recursive mobile code, can effectively provide any networking protocols and important system applications, by integrating and tasking available terrestrial and celestial equipment. This book contains practical examples of technology-based solutions for tracing hypersonic gliders, continuing observation of certain objects and infrastructures on Earth from space, space-based command and control of large distributed systems, as well as collective removal of increasing amounts of space junk. Earlier versions of this technology were prototyped and used in different countries, with the current version capable of being quickly implemented in traditional industrial or even university environments. This book is oriented toward system scientists, application programmers, industry managers, and university students interested in advanced MSc and PhD projects related to space conquest and distributed system management. Dr Peter Simon Sapaty, Chief Research Scientist, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, has worked with networked systems for five decades. Outside of Ukraine, he has worked in the former Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic and Slovakia), Germany, the UK, Canada, and Japan as a group leader, Alexander von Humboldt researcher, and invited and visiting professor. He launched and chaired the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Mobile Cooperative Technologies in Distributed Interactive Simulation project in the United States, and invented a distributed control technology that resulted in a European patent and books with Wiley, Springer, and Emerald. He has published more than 250 papers on distributed systems and has been included in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World and Cambridge Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. Peter also works with several international scientific journals.


Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning

Shared Grasping: a Combination of Telepresence and Grasp Planning

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  • Author: Hertkorn, Katharina
  • Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
  • ISBN: 3731504022
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 250


Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith

Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith

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  • Author: Martin S. Laird
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199267995
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union. This study elucidates important auxiliary themes that accrue to Gregory's notion of faith as a faculty of apophatic union with God.


Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions

Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions

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  • Author: Claudia Gianelli
  • Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
  • ISBN: 2889456005
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138


General Rotorcraft Aeromechanical Stability Program (GRASP): Theory Manual

General Rotorcraft Aeromechanical Stability Program (GRASP): Theory Manual

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  • Category : Aeroelasticity
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156


Haptic Devices for Studies on Human Grasp and Rehabilitation

Haptic Devices for Studies on Human Grasp and Rehabilitation

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  • Author: Alessandro Altobelli
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319470876
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 82

This book presents a new set of devices for accurate investigation of human finger stiffness and force distribution in grasping tasks. The ambitious goal of this research is twofold, the first is to advance the state of the art on human strategies in manipulation tasks and provide tools to assess rehabilitation procedure and the second is to investigate human strategies for impedance control that can be used for human robot interaction and control of myoelectric prosthesis. Part one describes two types of systems that are able to achieve a complete set of measurements on force distribution and contact point locations. The effectiveness of these devices in grasp analysis is also experimentally demonstrated and applications to neuroscientific studies are discussed. In part two, the devices are exploited in two different studies to investigate stiffness regulation principles in humans. The first study provides evidence on the existence of coordinated stiffening patterns in the fingers of human hands and establishes initial steps towards a real-time and effective modelling of finger stiffness in tripod grasp. The second study presents experimental findings on how humans modulate their hand stiffness whilst grasping objects of varying levels of compliance. The overall results give solid evidence on the validity and utility of the proposed devices to investigate human grasp properties. The underlying motor control principles that are exploited by humans in the achievement of a reliable and robust grasp can potentially be integrated into the control framework of robotic or prosthetic hands to achieve a similar interaction performance.